Yang Jingyu, the commander of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, a man who made the Japanese army feel that it was a nightmare when he heard the name, was betrayed by his own men three times, betrayed the information to the Japanese, and was beheaded.
Yang Jingyu's original name was Ma Shangde, and he was only renamed Yang Jingyu in 1932, because "Jingyu" means "to drive away enemies" in Korean, and he did beat the Kwantung Army like his name.
Yang Jingyu was good at guerrilla warfare, using the guerrilla tactic of "the enemy advances and we retreat, and the enemy chaos and I fight" to beat the Kwantung Army and the pseudo-Manchurian Army all over the place to find teeth.
How far did the Japanese Kwantung Army hate Yang Jingyu? This set of data can be seen that from 1938 onwards, the Japanese Kwantung Army Command mobilized 60,000 troops and police brigades to "encircle and suppress" Yang Jingyu, and at that time, the number of people at the peak of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance was only 30,000. The order issued by Japan at that time was; When you see the Anti-League and other teams, only fight the Anti-League; Those who saw that there were Yang Jingyu's team in the anti-coalition team only hit Yang Jingyu's team.
In order to deal with Yang Jingyu, the Japanese Kwantung Army also reviewed the original operational thinking and made three new changes:
First, the Kwantung Army built watchtowers and patrol police where the Anti-Japanese League entered and exited, strengthened patrols, and used armed forces to enclose every two or three hundred ordinary people with barbed wire to live, severed all ties with the Anti-League.
Second, as long as it is the anti-coalition team, it will desperately follow the fight, and the anti-coalition team will become smaller and smaller.
The third point, and also an important point, is not to use indiscriminate killing tactics, but to recruit and give preferential treatment to the rebel elements of the Anti-League.
It was also because of this that Yang Jingyu fell into the hands of the Japanese Kwantung Army.
In July 1938, Yang Jingyu was betrayed for the first time, and this person was his beloved general, Cheng Bin, the commander of the First Army Division of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition known as "Little Yang Jingyu", and the Japanese Kwantung Army captured Cheng Bin's mother and forced him to surrender. Cheng Bin chose to pull 115 of his men, carrying a large amount of guns and ammunition, and surrendered in cash.
Cheng Bin's first "great achievement" after the rebellion was to lead the Kwantung Army to destroy more than 70 secret camps set up by Yang Jingyu in Mengjiang County, which stored grain, medicine, cloth, and machinery, which was the only remaining life supply line for the anti-coalition forces after they lost support and contact with the people.
Overnight, the supply of life was destroyed, and Yang Jingyu's team fell into a desperate situation.
In the autumn of 1939, the Japanese Kwantung Army carried out a comprehensive sweep of Yang Jingyu's team, and the 10 pseudo-police brigade leaders of this team, including Cheng Bin, were traitors.
It's elbowing outwards, Chinese Chinese!
Because Cheng Bin was well aware of Yang Jingyu's tactics and route, Yang Jingyu's troops suffered huge losses and serious attrition.
By January 1940, Yang Jingyu's troops, who had run out of ammunition and food, were in the icy and snowy environment of more than minus 20 degrees, and they could only continue to move forward in the snow with cloth wrapped around their feet, and when they were hungry, they could only eat tree bark to fill their hunger.
On January 22, Yang Jingyu was betrayed again, and Ding Shoulong, a staff officer of the Guard Brigade, was captured by the Tonghua Provincial Police Brigade, and then immediately defected, exposing Yang Jingyu's hidden location and team situation.
Less than a month later, on February 1, Yang Jingyu was betrayed for the third time, how could Yang Jingyu not think that this time it was the person who betrayed him, but Yang Jingyu raised Zhang Xiufeng, who was raised from childhood and loved his father and son. More importantly, Zhang Xiufeng revealed Yang Jingyu's breakthrough route and intentions to the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army almost accurately positioned Yang Jingyu.
In the same month, on February 22, Yang Jingyu encountered a traitor and was fatally betrayed.
This morning Yang Jingyu had not eaten for 5 days and 5 nights, and two of his guards had also died while going down the mountain to buy grain, and he was alone in the mountains and finally waited for 4 "villagers" to cut firewood, and the "villagers" among them were Zhao Yanxi, the platoon leader of the puppet army.
Yang Jingyu thought he had met hope, but what he did not expect to encounter was a traitor. Yang Jingyu begged them to bring some food and cotton shoes, and there would be a heavy reward.
Zhao Yanxi advised Yang Jingyu: "You should still surrender, 'Manchukuo' will not kill those who surrender." ”
Yang Jingyu replied, "Fellow, I am Chinese!" We can't do such a thing, we Chinese surrender, China will be finished. ”
Zhao Yanxi promised to get grain for Yang Jingyu, and on the way back Zhao Yanxi met another traitor, Li Zhengxin, and Zhao Yanxi was afraid that the other three people who accompanied him would report to the Japanese army that they had seen Yang Jingyu, so Zhao Yanxi immediately betrayed Yang Jingyu when he returned.
At about 3 p.m. on February 23, the Japanese army surrounded Yang Jingyu, and the Japanese army Nishitani Kithiro shouted yang Jingyu to let him surrender, Yang Jingyu replied: "I cherish my life, but now my troops have sacrificed a lot, only myself, the enemy is at present, our other comrades still continue to fight, I will resist to the end, shoot!" ”
Yang Jingyu and the Japanese opened a confrontation, after the right hand was shot, he changed his left hand to take the gun and continued to return fire, and the Japanese Nishitani Kiyo saw that there was no hope of capturing Yang Jingyu alive in the confrontation, so he ordered Yang Jingyu to be killed. Yang Jingyu was shot into the chest by a bullet, and the person who shot Yang Jingyu was a famous machine gunner of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Resistance League, Zhang Xiruo, who surrendered with Cheng Bin, and the former beloved general of the elegant soldier Yang Jingyu.
Yang Jingyu could not have imagined that he would die at the hands of his betraying love general, which was a sad thing.
After Yang Jingyu was shot, the Japanese could not believe that Yang Jingyu died at their hands. After confirming the news of Yang Jingyu's death, the Japanese report at the time said: "It was Yang, so all the members of the crusade sent out boy crying." ”
Let's not say that this sentence is not credible, if there is credibility in those few traitors who secretly shed tears, the Japanese will not be in the mood to shed tears, because they are more curious about what exactly supports Yang Jingyu to survive in the weather of more than minus 20 degrees, is he there any other secret camp?
So the Japanese cut open Yang Jingyu's stomach, but the Japanese were disappointed, Yang Jingyu's stomach did not have the food they imagined, only three things, cotton wool, straw, and bark.
Even the Japanese leader, Takaichiro Nagagishi, sighed: "Although it is an enemy, it is a great hero to witness this magnificent scene." ”
The Japanese also found a harmonica when cleaning up Yang Jingyu's relics, and the Japanese could not understand why Yang Jingyu still wore a harmonica in the ice and snow. But an Guangxun, the renegade former chief of staff of the Anti-Japanese First Route Army, knew that he could not control his voice and wept when he saw the harmonica, because Yang Jingyu used to take out the harmonica and play the music to the soldiers when the team was resting.
This harmonica evoked the days when they fought side by side, but now it was the former comrade-in-arms who killed Yang Jingyu. Yang Jingyu did not die under the guns of the Japanese, but died in the betrayal of his own people.
In the Japanese photographs showing Yang Jingyu's body, the two on the left are Chinese. I feel ashamed of these defectors, and I also feel incomparable admiration for Yang Jingyu.
